The “one-of-a-kind” fossil of Navaornis hestiae helps fill a giant gap in scientists’ understanding of how bird brains ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

A research team used state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning technology to reconstruct the bird’s skull and brain in remarkable ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

"we still don't know why birds are able to do this or when it began to occur in their evolutionary history." ...

A rare 80-million-year-old fossil bird skull is helping scientists decode how modern bird intelligence evolved.

"we still don't know why birds are able to do this or when it began to occur in their evolutionary history." Some of the measurements for this study were taken at the imaging facility of the ...

Ancient birds shaped cicada wing evolution, leading to faster, stronger wings for survival. This reveals insights into ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link ...